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MedfordTribune
2nd SECTION
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1959
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STARTING OUT Luggage in hand, Colin Kelly m
.(left) arrives at West Point Military Academy to begin
four years of cadet training. Kelly, 19, is the son of
' Colin Kelly Jr, first American hero of World War H.
tYocng Kelly passed up a Presidential appointment, in
order to take and pass competitive examinations on an
equal footing with other cadets.
Extradition in Wagons Head for
G.P. Case Refused
Sacramento, Calif. - (UPD -Gov.
Edmund G. Brown Wed
nesday refused to extradite
Bernice Frances Arnold of
Albany, Calif., who was want
ed in Grants Pass on a swin
dling charge.
The Oregon charge said
Mrs. Arnold allegedly todk
part in a "pigeon-drop" swin
dle in 'Grants Pass April 21,
1959. - ,
At a hearing in Brown'a of
fice last June 18, an over
whelming array of witnesses
testified that Mrs. Arnold did
not leave the San Francisco
Bay area during -the time of
the alleged swindle, Brown
said.
He said the only evidence
leading to the charge against
Mrs. Arnold was an old pho
tograph which was shown to
the victim in Grants Pass.
Identification was doubtful,
Brown said, and the entire
case so far showed evidence
of mistaken identity.
However, he told Oregon
Gov. Mark Hatfield that if
more persuasive evidence
against Mrs. Arnold should be
discovered, he would look fa-
extradition request,
Twin Falls Camp
Rupert, Idaho (UPD - The
On-To-Oregon Cavalcade ar
rived here Wednesday and
was greeted by 40 horsemen
from the Minidoka Wranglers,
a local club, who escorted the
wagons to the county fair
grounds. The horsemen formed an
honor guard and escorted the
seven covered wagons to the
eastern edge of Kupert for
Wednesday night's encamp
ment. The Wranglers served fried
chicken to the wagoneers and
the combined chambers of
commerce of Rupert, Burley
and Paul provided an evening
of entertainment.
The Fifty-Niners had break
fast in Burley this morning
and headed westward, toward
the week end camp at Twin
Falls.
WELLS-FARGO 'HELD UP'
Winston-Salem, N. C. -(DPD-j.
T. Sprinkle locked the key
inside his Wells Fargo ar
mored truck. J. T. Fain Jr.,
manager of a City National
Bank branch, burgled it out
for him, with a piece of chew
ing gum on the end of a wire
vorably upon renewal of the! coat hanger, inserted through
one of the truck's gun ports.
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Oregon Has Same Number
Of Horses Now As In 1859
Corvallis-Oregon has trav
eled far since 1859, but is
right back where it started
with one thing horses.
There were . about 40,000
horses in Oregon when Con
gress declared it a state. And
there are about that same
number now. In the mean
time, there were 100,000
horses in 1877: 200,000 in
1887; and 300,000 in 1917.
Autos and tractors came on
the scene, however, and horse
numbers started declining.
History doesn't say when
the first horse appeared in
Oregon. Indians showed their
appreciation of horses, which
they called "big dogs," by
drawing pictures of them upon
walls of caves, cliffs and
smooth stones. None of these
horse pictures seems to have
been drawn before 1700, so
there probably weren't any
horses in the state before that,
surmises E. R. Jackman, Ore
gon State college extension
range crops management specialist.
Lewis and Clark
When Lewis and Clark ar
rived in 1805, they found
horses to be plentiful among
the Walla Wallas and Nez
Perces. These "big dogs" prob
ably had been bought, traded
or stolen from southern In
dian tribes who had used sim
ilar means to obtain them
from Spanish settlers in Tex
as. Early settlers m eastern
Oregon took to horse raising
with a vengeance. Malheur,
Harney and Lake counties
soon were headquarters for
vast horse, ranches. Long be
fore the railroads came, huge
horse herds were driven east
to Kansas City and other
horse markets.
Bill Brown of the Gap
ranch in nothern Lake county
was a colorful horse baron
whose animals ranged for 200
miles. Jack Craddock of Sil
vies valley drove herds to the
East. There were many others.
At the peak in 1917, the
census showed 300,000 horses
in Oregon. But the old horse
men's figures were lamenta
bly short, Jackman recalls.
The correct number, counting
wild horses, could have been
nearer to half a million.
Horse Fairs
Homesteaders on good land,
as in Sherman and Union
counties, got into the horse
business, too, with registered
Percherons, Clydes and Bel
gians. These folks were truly
proud of tbpir draft horses
and sent them to Chicago and
Kansas City to leading horse
fairs.
. A. C. Ruby, Portland, trad
ed in horses widely and was
known nationwide . A big
horse show at Union, Ore.,
attracted many of the same
animals that showed at Chi
cago. '
Still another class was the
wild horses. They were to be
seen on every distant horizon
in eastern Oregon. The wild
horse still hangs out in a few
spots, but there aren't many
left. Thousands were killed
for their hides which were
made into pony coats - high
fashion for women about 30
years ago. Fox farmers killed
many "more for they found
wild horse meat just about
right to feed their foxes. .
Horse Meat
Many another horse went
the way of the meal table.
During the war, horse meat
required no ration coupons
and colt steak graced many a
table.
Oregon still has 40,000
horses, and now the saddle
horse is having its day. A few
persons raise fine riding
horses to sell. Another group,
such as Sherman and Umatilla
wheat ranchers, raise horses
for riding clubs. They find
that a colt eats no more than
a calf and sometimes sells
more briskly.
Quarter horse, Appaloosa,
Arabian, Palomino, Tennessee
Walking horses and Shetland
and Welsh ponies have pretty
well displaced the Indian pony
and the Clydesdale and other
work horses.
Oregon horses were famous
for most of the last hundred
years. Conditions for horses
are still good here and it's
likely that some will be
around forever, Jackman concluded.
New Jersey has 23 railroads
with 3,128 miles of track.
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Nalley's Champion Dressing quart jars 49c
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